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Social Media Bots: Laws

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While social media bots have the ability to greatly affect US national security and public discourse, the current landscape of US federal and state laws regulating such bots is limited. This study explores the challenges inherent to passing social media bot-related legislation and details current efforts to do so, including at the federal and state levels. It briefly explores the context in the European Union as well. This paper then discusses the dilemmas social media companies face as they think about effective bot policies and identifies the four main categories of policies through which the social media platforms regulate the use of bots on their sites. As they face evolving threats from bots, the social media companies will continue to adapt their policies accordingly, though it remains an open question whether and to what extent these companies should regulate themselves in the face of additional pressure from Congress and the public.

attention to the problem. Therefore, the social media platforms are likely to shoulder much of the burden going forward, and it is an open question how and to what extent the platforms should police

BTAM: Cooperation, Not Coercion

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In July 2018, the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) released guidelines to help schools create a targeted violence prevention plan.

for law enforcement involvement, which both implies and assumes that the process is being led by the school and not by the police. Having the process led by schools makes sense because most of the cases

Officer Readiness Assessment Toolkit

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Identifies strengths in law enforcement agencies across the six elements of the Performance Recovery and Optimization (PRO) program: mental, physical, social, spiritual, financial, and tactical.

program which aims to enhance police officer performance on the job and at home, prevent officer burnout, and aid in creating a culture that encourages mental health and wellness. white default

ai with ai: D/Generative

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In COVID-related news, Nature publishes a review of COVID-19 AI tools, emphasizing that most tools are still in development and largely unproven. Inserm selects Expert System's AI support for its COVID-19 research and its group of over 10,000 researchers. Researchers provide in open-source a large annotated dataset of CT and X-ray images from COVID-19 patients, called the BIMCV COVID-19+. In regular AI news, Microsoft announces that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to police departments in the US until a national law is in place to help govern its use. On that note, a new federal bill in development, the Justice in Policing Act, contains policy guidelines on the use and limitations of facial recognition technology for police. OpenAI releases a commercial product API for accessing its AI models, to include the 175B parameter GPT-3, although other researchers are expressing concern over the lack of accountability on bias. Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Challenge, where the winning model achieved at 65% accuracy on a set of 10,000 previously unseen clips. And Boston Dynamics makes its robot dog, Spot, available for sale at $74,500 plus tax. In research, a team at Duke University introduces PULSE, which sharpens blurry images, in essence by exploring the space of plausible high-res images that could result in the blurry image. The report of the week comes from Perry World House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the International Committee of the Red Cross offer their take on Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems, by identifying the practical elements of human control. The review of the week from University of Waterloo provides an overview of text detection and recognition in the wild. MacroPolo provides a snapshot of Global AI Talent, using participants from the 2019 NeurIPS. Spring-Verlag provides yet another free text, from Eiben and Smith, on an Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. And NavyCon 2020 provides brief snapshots on "navies, science fiction, and great power competition" from a host of participants.

+. In regular AI news, Microsoft announces that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to police departments in the US until a national law is in place to help govern its use. On that note, a new federal bill in development, the Justice in Policing Act, contains policy guidelines on the use and limitations of facial recognition technology for police. OpenAI releases a commercial product ... COVID-19+: a large annotated dataset of X-ray and CT images from COVID-19 patients Announcements / News - "Just" AI Microsoft won't sell police its facial-recognition technology A new

Crime Analysis in Action: Success Stories from the Crime Analyst in Residence Program

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The Crime Analyst in Residence program of the US Department of Justice helps rural and small-town police departments use data analytics to reduce crime.

Crime Analysis Success Stories The Crime Analyst in Residence program of the US Department of Justice helps rural and small-town police departments use data analytics to reduce crime. /images ... small and rural police departments and other law enforcement agencies across the nation establish or enhance their use of data analytics to inform their operations and practices. Using a hybrid ... individuals with frequent police interactions of other kinds across different locations, such as persons experiencing mental health crises. The agency has increased its capacity to intervene earlier

ai with ai: The Kwicker Man

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the release of the US National Defense Authorization Act for FY2023, which includes over 200 mentions of “AI” and many more requirements for the Department of Defense. DoD has also awarded its cloud-computing contracts, not to one company, but four – Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. At the end of November, the San Francisco Board voted to allow the police force to use robots to administer deadly force, however, after a nearly immediate response from a “No Killer Robots” campaign, in early December the board passed a revised version of the policy that prohibits police from using robots to kill people. Israeli company Elbit unveils its LANIUS drone, a “drone-based loitering munition” that can carry lethal or non-lethal payloads, and appears to have many functions similar to the ‘slaughter bots,’ except for autonomous targeting. Neuralink shows the latest updates on its research for putting a brain chip interface into humans, with demonstrations of a monkey manipulating a mouse cursor with its thoughts; the company also faces a federal investigation into possible animal-welfare violations. DeepMind publishes AlphaCode in Science, a story that we covered back in February. DeepMind also introduces DeepNash, an autonomous agent that can play Stratego. OpenAI unleashes ChatGPT, a spin-off of GPT-3 optimized for answering questions through back-and-forth dialogue. Meanwhile, Stack Overflow, a website for programmers, temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, because the output of the algorithm might look good, but it has “a high rate of being incorrect.” Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrate that, with a simple neural network, it is possible to reconstruct a “large portion” of the actual training samples. NOMIC provides an interactive map to explore over 6M images from Stable Diffusion.  Steve Coulson creates “AI-assisted comics” using Midjourney. Stay tuned for AI Debate 3 on 23 December 2022. And the video of the week from Ricard Sole at the Santa Fe Institute explores mapping the cognition space of liquid and solid brains.

Francisco Board voted to allow the police force to use robots to administer deadly force, however, after a nearly immediate response from a “No Killer Robots” campaign, in early December the board passed a revised version of the policy that prohibits police from using robots to kill people. Israeli company Elbit unveils its LANIUS drone, a “drone-based loitering munition” that can carry lethal ... DoD Split’s JEDI contract among AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle Announcement Summary Can police use robots to kill? Original vote Second vote Israeli Elbit

ai with ai: The Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 1)

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Andy and Dave discuss a scathing report on Scotland Yard’s facial recognition software, which researchers at the University of Essex found to have an 81% error rate (but that the Met Police say has an error rate of 0.1%). In related news, Axon announced that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices; Axon supplies 47 of the 69 largest police agencies in the U.S. with body cameras and software. DARPA announces IDAS, the Intent-Defined Adaptive Software (IDAS), in an attempt to reduce the need for manual software modifications. NIST posts the first draft guideline for developing AI technical standards. Elon Musk says that its Neuralink is almost ready for the first human volunteers; Neuralink uses ultra-fine threads that can be implanted into the brain to detect the activity of neurons. And the Bank of England announced that Alan Turing will be on the new Fifty Pounds note. In research, Andy and Dave discuss Pluribus, the latest AI for multiplayer poker from CMU and Facebook AI, which won during a 12-day poker marathon in 6-player no-limit Texas hold’em; the AI runs on two Intel processors and a “modest” 128GB during play.

2-35 Andy and Dave discuss a scathing report on Scotland Yard’s facial recognition software, which researchers at the University of Essex found to have an 81% error rate (but that the Met Police say has an error rate of 0.1%). In related news, Axon announced that it will ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices; Axon supplies 47 of the 69 largest police agencies in the U.S. ... /AI_2_35.jpg The Shadow of What Is Going to Be (Part 1) News Scathing Report of Scotland Yard’s Facial Recognition Software Story (128 page) Report A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned

What Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers Tell Us

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The first study of a comprehensive data collection effort on suicides by police and correctional officers shows trends, suggests opportunities for prevention.

Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers The first study of a comprehensive data collection effort on suicides by police and correctional officers shows trends, suggests opportunities for prevention. /images/InDepth/2024/04/casket-flag.webp What Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers Tell Us Jessica Dockstader and Daniel Lawrence Jessica Dockstader is an expert in officer wellness and Daniel ... for collecting and providing these data and collaborating with CNA on the analysis. Police officers are at a greater risk of dying by suicide than the general public, and even more likely to die by suicide

Law Enforcement-Community Engagement

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As law enforcement agencies navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health education efforts.

is a Senior Advisor at CNA. Prior to joining CNA, he worked for the Madison, Wisconsin, Police Department for 25 years. Mr. Woodmansee worked as a patrol officer and an undercover narcotics officer ... Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer in Hennepin County sparked social unrest around the world. The pandemic affected law enforcement agencies’ abilities to engage with their communities, forcing them

ai with ai: AI-chemy 2: This Time It's Personal

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an update from DARPA on its Machine Common Sense program, demonstrating rapidly adapting to changing terrain, carrying dynamic loads, and understanding how to grasp objects [0:55]. The Israeli military fields new tech from Camero-Tech that allows operators to ‘see through walls,’ using pulse-based ultra-wideband micro-power radar in combination with an AI-based algorithm for tracking live targets [5:01]. In autonomous shipping [8:13], the Suzaka, a cargo ship powered by Orca AI, makes a nearly 500-mile voyage “without human intervention” for 99% of the trip; the Prism Courage sails from the Gulf of Mexico to South Korea “controlled mostly” by HiNAS 2.0, a system by Avikus, a subsidiary of Hyundai; and Promare’s and IBM’s Mayflower Autonomous Ship travels from the UK to Nova Scotia. In large language models [10:09], a Chinese research team unveils a 174 trillion parameter model, Bagualu (‘alchemist pot’) and claims it runs an AI model as sophisticated as a human brain (not quite, though); Meta releases the largest open-source AI language model, with OPT-66B, a 66 billion parameter model; and Russia’s Yandex opens its 100 billion parameters YaLM to public access. Researchers from the University of Chicago publish a model that can predict future crimes “one week in advance with about 90% accuracy” (referring to general crime levels, not specific people and exact locations), and also demonstrate the potential effects of bias in police response and enforcement [13:32]. In a similar vein, researchers from Berkeley, MIT, and Oxford publish attempts to forecast future world events using the neural network system Autocast and show that forecasting performance still comes in far below a human expertise baseline [16:37]. Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada provide the (graduate) book of the week, with Cognitive Robotics.

to general crime levels, not specific people and exact locations), and also demonstrate the potential effects of bias in police response and enforcement [13:32]. In a similar vein, researchers from ... public access to AI large language model Research Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response Nontechnical summary Technical paper